RonB    776183 Sun, 12 Aug 07 03:22 AM Okay, if you can explain this, I hope you don't. Outside we've developed a flying ant problem. Swarms of flying ants (or something like them) on, or just above, the grass. But, above them, we have thousands of dragonflies, weaving, circling, bobbing, diving and catching the ants. We're not by the water I've never seen a single dragonfly here before now we've got thousands of them. Weird. RonB "There's a story there...somewhere" RonB Plants

	Anonymous    776198 Sun, 12 Aug 07 03:33 AM "Okay, if you can explain this, I hope you don't. Outside we've developed a flying ant problem. Swarms of flying ... seen a single dragonfly here before now we've got thousands of them. Weird. RonB "There's a story there...somewhere"" Count your blessings - and maybe you can make a film and put it on YouTube. It's like way back when in Salt Lake City, a plague of grasshoppers hit, then out of nowhere, seagulls flew in to save the day (and the crops). I love dragonflies. Anonymous

	Caroline    776200 Sun, 12 Aug 07 04:06 AM "Okay, if you can explain this, I hope you don't. Outside we've developed a flying ant problem. Swarms of flying ... seen a single dragonfly here before now we've got thousands of them. Weird. RonB "There's a story there...somewhere"" Are you sure your "flying ants" aren't termites? Years ago, when I first got to Dayton, we were living in a small rented apartment until the furniture arrived, and we came home one night and when we turned on the lights, all you could see was this mass of flying critters. Termites! The landlort didn't seem at all concerned. I was very relieved the furniture arrived before the floor collapsed beneath us. No idea about the dragonflies... Maybe they're just hungry? Caroline Caroline

	RonB    776219 Sun, 12 Aug 07 08:18 AM "Count your blessings - and maybe you can make a film and put it on YouTube. It's like way back ... of grasshoppers hit, then out of nowhere, seagulls flew in to save the day (and the crops). I love dragonflies." I like dragonflies too, but I usually only see them around the water. Funny, shortly after I posted about them the whole show packed up and was gone as sudden as it started. RonB "There's a story there...somewhere" RonB

	RonB    776233 Sun, 12 Aug 07 08:20 AM "Are you sure your "flying ants" aren't termites? Years ago, when I first got to Dayton, we were living in ... very relieved the furniture arrived before the floor collapsed beneath us. No idea about the dragonflies... Maybe they're just hungry?" Termites make more sense. I'm sure the dragonflies were hungry it's just the fact that they showed up so suddenly and in such high numbers that made it surprising. RonB "There's a story there...somewhere" RonB Writing, Numbers

	Jacques E. Bouchard    776236 Sun, 12 Aug 07 01:05 PM "Count your blessings - and maybe you can make a film and put it on YouTube. It's like way back when in Salt Lake City, a plague of grasshoppers hit, then out of nowhere, seagulls flew in to save the day (and the crops)." Seagulls, or... PTERODACTYLS??!!! jaybee Jacques E. Bouchard

	Jacques E. Bouchard    776259 Sun, 12 Aug 07 01:06 PM "I like dragonflies too, but I usually only see them around the water. Funny, shortly after I posted about them the whole show packed up and was gone as sudden as it started." Yeah, you *think* they're gone. But they lurk, just out of sight, watching... waiting... and in a couple of days, when they're hungry again, you'll start looking pretty damn plump and juicy to them... jaybee Jacques E. Bouchard

	Jacques E. Bouchard    776260 Sun, 12 Aug 07 01:08 PM "That sounds like a fun story you could write up - "Day of the Dragonflies" maybe. Maybe the marauding termites ... Golden Pond... only to return because endless lilypads does not make up for true family love. I smell a blockbuster." Pixar could animate it. With Ray Romano voicing the role of the reluctant hero, and Queen Latifa as the no-nonsense streetsmart beetle sidekick. jaybee Jacques E. Bouchard

	Alan Brooks    776262 Sun, 12 Aug 07 01:37 PM "Okay, if you can explain this, I hope you don't. Outside we've developed a flying ant problem. Swarms of flying ... not by the water I've never seen a single dragonfly here before now we've got thousands of them." It's the dragonfly hatching. I first noticed it here in Woodstock a few years ago: the dragonflies in this region all hatch and take flight on the same day. There's a 10 acre meadow behind my house and on hatching day this year it was yesterday the meadow has, literally, thousands of dragonflies hovering about 2 feet off the ground. I can call friends for 15 miles in any direction from here and they'll have the same phenomenon on the same day. Amazing. Either that or it's a sign that God wants us to set His People free. Alan Brooks A with an Underwood Or next, I'll send in the Plague of Yorkies. MWSM FAQ: http://www.panix.com/~mwsm/faq.html Filtering Trolls: http://www.panix.com/~mwsm/trolls.html Alan Brooks Friendships, Relationships, Friends